Two Poems by Debbie Robson

Waiting

Burnt ochre sunshine 

is grazing our shoulders 

as we sit on the steps 

of the Victor Emmanuel 

building in Rome

waiting for our tour bus.

Impatience fights with

tiredness as we wonder

about the delay. The 

hours tick by, the years.

Decades. Sometimes I’m

still sitting there.

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Transfixed

Today I have put on happiness

(after many weeks) like a new

dress. Clean, light and 

hanging smoothly. I am fit

for the ball and I’m sure

my dress won’t powder 

at midnight and the mice 

have promised to stay

transfixed – not scuttling

and sniffing in my waking dreams.

Debbie Robson has published a novella with Alien Buddha Press and previously Crossing Paths: the BookCrossing Novel and Tomaree, a WWII love story. 

She is fascinated by the first sixty years of the last century. Her poems, micro, flash and short stories have been published internationally. She tweets at lakelady2282.